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December 10, 2025

How Trump’s Free Pass to Polluters will Harm Americans

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The Courts Delivered Important Climate Wins in 2025

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How Should We Read China’s First White Paper on Arms Control in 20 Years?

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April 2, 2019

Shell Puts Trade Groups on Notice about Climate Policy

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April 1, 2019

Food Companies at the Table in Trump Administration’s Dietary Guidelines Committee

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April 1, 2019

Trump Administration Proposes Sponsorship Opportunities for Federal Agency Staff Positions and “Assets”

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March 29, 2019

Five Takeaways from the EPA Meeting on Particulate Pollution

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Nine Reasons to Oppose the Trump Administration’s Proposed SNAP Changes

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March 29, 2019

What Climate Change Could Mean for the Future of California’s Springtime Snowpack

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March 28, 2019

Equality, More or Less: How the Supreme Court Might Fix Gerrymandering

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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March 28, 2019

How Securitization Can Help Achieve a Just Transition for Coal Communities

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March 27, 2019

How the Chemical Industry Deployed the Disinformation Playbook on PFAS

Genna Reed
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March 27, 2019

EPA Needs to Trust Its Own Scientists and Protect Us from Ethylene Oxide

Genna Reed
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March 27, 2019

1,399 Endangered Species Latest Casualty as David Bernhardt’s Siege on Science Continues at Interior Department

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March 25, 2019

Taking Science Out of Air Pollution Protections

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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March 25, 2019

How the Green New Deal Can Unify Rather than Divide Us

Ken Kimmell
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March 22, 2019

New Mexico Commits to 100

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 21, 2019

Illinois’ Energy Future: Less Coal, More Renewables

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

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March 21, 2019

What’s Hot in Offshore Wind: 5 Dispatches from the Front Lines

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March 19, 2019

Maps Lie. Beyoncé Doesn’t

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March 18, 2019

The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Continues to Weaken

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March 18, 2019

Inspiration, Humility, Hope, and Sadness: Reflections on the Youth Climate Strike

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March 14, 2019

Trump’s Proposed 2020 Budget Takes Aim at Science (Again)

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A Comment Guide for Fighting the EPA’s Attacks on Mercury Standards and Cost-Benefit Analysis

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March 14, 2019

Perdue’s Paradox: Proposed USDA Reorganization Would Undermine Farmers and Science-Based Research

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March 13, 2019

The Scientific Integrity Act is Good for Science and Good for Government

Michael Halpern
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March 13, 2019

Bury the Science, Then Claim It Doesn’t Exist: Interior Department Undermines Arctic Drilling Review

Joel Clement
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